Alright, so normally I'm used to just owning it up, no matter what plane I'm in, too many noobs in the world not to.
So since the patch, I've noticed that the J-10 can avoid incoming AA fire, I occasionally also did the same with other jets, so I didn't think much of it. Then today, I was playing a couple rounds of Dalian Plant, first round in the F-35B going against a decent J-10 pilot. I take him down a couple times, I guess he was warming up, never really got behind me, or the times he did, I broke him before he got tone.
So then a minute or two later, he comes out of nowhere, bam, blows me out of the sky. Repeat 1 or 2 times and I'm really starting to wonder wtf I'm doing wrong. So I'm more careful, start to fly higher, catch him befoe he cathes me. I get behind him 4 consecutive times in a row, get tone, wait for flares, re-lock and fire off all 6 missiles. 24 missiles later, I've hit him once. It wasn't deep turns breaking the lock (although I was doing deep turns against him and he was still blowing me out of the sky), it was just simple stuff, like you'd expect to work in 1.12. So 24 missiles later, he manages to get behind me, 2 missiles and I'm dead again.
Fast forward to the next round, sides switch, I'm on PLA now. Get in my J-10 and proceed to just own the crap out of this dude, never died, shot him down without needing to rearm everytime I saw him, etc. So I start to wonder if it really is that easy to consciously lose AA missiles with simple evasive manuevers. I start strafing the Essex, taking down whatever is up to get someone to use the Essex AA guns. Eventually someone does, and I let him get tone and fire, no flares, just do simple rudder turns and mild pitch/yaw and amazingly, multiple times in a row, I'd dodge all 8 essex missiles with no flares. WTF?
Nerf the J-10!
So since the patch, I've noticed that the J-10 can avoid incoming AA fire, I occasionally also did the same with other jets, so I didn't think much of it. Then today, I was playing a couple rounds of Dalian Plant, first round in the F-35B going against a decent J-10 pilot. I take him down a couple times, I guess he was warming up, never really got behind me, or the times he did, I broke him before he got tone.
So then a minute or two later, he comes out of nowhere, bam, blows me out of the sky. Repeat 1 or 2 times and I'm really starting to wonder wtf I'm doing wrong. So I'm more careful, start to fly higher, catch him befoe he cathes me. I get behind him 4 consecutive times in a row, get tone, wait for flares, re-lock and fire off all 6 missiles. 24 missiles later, I've hit him once. It wasn't deep turns breaking the lock (although I was doing deep turns against him and he was still blowing me out of the sky), it was just simple stuff, like you'd expect to work in 1.12. So 24 missiles later, he manages to get behind me, 2 missiles and I'm dead again.
Fast forward to the next round, sides switch, I'm on PLA now. Get in my J-10 and proceed to just own the crap out of this dude, never died, shot him down without needing to rearm everytime I saw him, etc. So I start to wonder if it really is that easy to consciously lose AA missiles with simple evasive manuevers. I start strafing the Essex, taking down whatever is up to get someone to use the Essex AA guns. Eventually someone does, and I let him get tone and fire, no flares, just do simple rudder turns and mild pitch/yaw and amazingly, multiple times in a row, I'd dodge all 8 essex missiles with no flares. WTF?
Nerf the J-10!